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Oracle® VM Server for SPARC 3.4 Installation Guide

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Updated: February 2017
 
 

Related Software

Compatible Software

This section describes the software that is compatible with and can be used with the Oracle VM Server for SPARC software. Be sure to check the software documentation or your platform documentation to find the version number of the software that is available for your version of the Oracle VM Server for SPARC software and your platform.

  • Oracle VM Manager is a web-based user interface that you can use to manage the Oracle VM environment. For more information about Oracle VM Manager, see the Oracle VM Documentation (http://www.oracle.com/technetwork/documentation/vm-096300.html).

  • SunVTS functionality is available in the control domain and guest domains on certain Oracle VM Server for SPARC releases and certain platforms. SunVTS is a validation test suite that provides a comprehensive diagnostic tool that tests and validates Oracle's Sun hardware by verifying the connectivity and proper functioning of most hardware controllers and devices on Oracle's Sun servers. For more information about SunVTS, refer to SunVTS 7.0 Software.

  • Explorer Data Collector can be used with the Oracle VM Server for SPARC software enabled on the control domain. Explorer is a diagnostic data collection tool. The tool comprises shell scripts and a few binary executables. For more information, see Oracle Explorer User’s Guide (http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/819-6613/819-6613.pdf).

  • Oracle Solaris Cluster software can be used in a guest domain with some restrictions. See the Oracle Solaris Cluster documentation for more information about any restrictions and about the Oracle Solaris Cluster software in general.

  • Oracle Enterprise Manager Ops Center enables you to manage physical and virtual system resources. This solution simplifies resource discovery and monitoring, provides operating system and firmware provisioning, performs comprehensive update and patch management, manages virtual environments such as Oracle Solaris Zones and Oracle VM Server for SPARC, and supports hardware management from power up to production. For more information, see http://www.oracle.com/us/products/enterprise-manager/index.html.

System Controller Software

    The following system controller (SC) software interacts with the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.4 software:

  • Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager (ILOM) 3.2 is the system management firmware that you can use to monitor, manage, and configure SPARC T-series servers and SPARC M-series servers. Oracle ILOM is preinstalled on these platforms and can be used on supported servers with the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.4 software enabled. Refer to Sun Integrated Lights Out Manager 3.2 User's Guide for features and tasks that are common to Oracle's Sun rack-mounted servers or blade servers that support Oracle ILOM. Other user documents present Oracle ILOM features and tasks that are specific to the server platform that you are using. You can find the Oracle ILOM platform-specific information within the documentation set that accompanies your system.

  • Fujitsu M10 Servers eXtended System Control Facility (XSCF) is the system management firmware that you can use to monitor, manage, and configure Fujitsu M10 servers. XSCF is preinstalled on these systems and can be used with the Oracle VM Server for SPARC 3.4 software enabled. For more information about this software, see Fujitsu M10/SPARC M10 Systems System Operation and Administration Guide and Fujitsu M10/SPARC M10 Systems XSCF Reference Manual in the Product Notes for your model at http://www.fujitsu.com/global/services/computing/server/sparc/downloads/manual/.